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Originalism and the good constitution / John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport.
LIBRA KF4552 .M34 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGinnis, John O., 1957- author.
- Rappaport, Michael B., 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- United States.
- Constitutional law--Philosophy.
- Origin (Philosophy).
- Judicial review--United States.
- Judicial review.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Originalism : Its Discontents and the Supermajoritarian Solution
- The Nature of the Argument
- The Supermajoritarian Theory of Constitutionalism
- The Compliance of the US Constitution with Desirable Supermajority Rules
- The Continuing Desirability of an Old Supermajoritarian Constitution
- Supermajoritarian Failure, Including the Exclusion of African Americans and Women
- Original Methods Originalism
- Original Methods versus Constitutional Construction
- Precedent, Originalism, and the Constitution
- The Normative Theory of Precedent
- Imagining an Originalist Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674725072
- 0674725077
- OCLC:
- 828724586
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